Apple has brought a new iPad mini supplier onboard, knocking other dominant touch panel makers like Samsung down a peg.

Apple has made Innolux Corp., a Taiwanese LCD panel maker, one of its iPad mini touch panel suppliers. LG and AU Optronics Corp. are the other two major iPad mini suppliers of touch panels.

Innolux is currently in the midst of obtaining a certificate for product qualification from Apple. Innolux plans to ship its first batch of touch panels using its touch-on-display tech by the end of 2013.

Samsung used to be a major LCD panel supplier for Apple's iPhones and iPads, but in October 2012, Samsung Display officially severed its contract with the iDevice maker. Samsung cited cost as the main issue, since Apple has started using Samsung competitors with better prices for displays recently. Hence, Apple was expecting bigger discounts from Samsung.

People also turn on that awful motion smoothing garbage on LCD HDTVs. Liking something terrible doesn't make them right.

You look at images all the time on a smartphone screen. Red should be red, blue should be blue, etc, not some neon crap. It should also be bright and sharp, neither of which describes the GS3 display.

Your phrasing also infers that more people prefer Samsung's color profiles, which doesn't work given that their high end devices are a niche compared to the iPhone, and their tablets sold are a blip in comparison to the 120+ million iPads sold (not just shipped).

quote: Plus I feel the richer colors help with glare sunlight and other things that we face daily.

Your feelings are incorrect given that the GS2 and GS3 consistently rank among the worst displays in broad daylight. The GS3 is actually dimmer than the GS2. I Googled for "GS3 in sunlight" and it is either reviews going over that as a negative or forum posts complaining about it. Among the best in sunlight, the iPhone and the Lumia.

All that said, I'm not a fan of the iPad Mini screen either, but that will be fixed once the retina version comes out.

quote: Your phrasing also infers that more people prefer Samsung's color profiles, which doesn't work given that their high end devices are a niche compared to the iPhone, and their tablets sold are a blip in comparison to the 120+ million iPads sold (not just shipped).

lmao yeah okay, pretend that advantage exists because of accurate colors. Even for you this is is a stretch.

Pretty sure you're wrong. The GS3 sold less than the over year old iPhone 4S last quarter, and the iPhone 5 outsold the total number of GS3s sold months ago.

High end smartphones like the GS3 and GN2 make up only a quarter of Samsung's total smartphone sales, most of which are low end devices. The difference between Samsung selling 60 million phones a quarter and Apple selling 50 million phones a quarter is that Apple only sells high end devices.

Its a niche.

quote: As the iPad Mini and many products before it prove, there are people who buy up Apple products in droves simply because it's an Apple.

Apps and smooth performance also help. Put an iPad and something else side by side and the advantages to consumers are very clear.

quote: lmao I like how you pretend there's some objective scientific "ranking" for such a metric. Whatever, this is silliness.

Of course there are objective scientific rankings, benchmarks and tests with hardware calibrators. Even without those you can just go on any website that has made visual comparison, it is obvious to anyone with eyeballs.

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